On the 28th of April OpenLogic will run a webinar to provide a comparison of key attributes - included market share and community participation - for the leading open source Source control management tools, including Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, and Subversion.
Other topics covered in this webinar will include:
Which open source SCM tools are best at branching, merging, and tagging
Client/server vs. single repository SCM tools
Peer-to-peer vs. distributed system SCM tools
How the leading open source SCM tools compare to commercial alternatives
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Appcelerator - the company founded in 2006 by Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright, that took a first round in 2008 from Storm Ventures - recently released Titanium preview, an open source platform for building desktop applications using Web technologies.
At the open source think tank I met Jeff Kunz, formerly Olliance Group partner and now VP of Business Development at Appcelerator, and I asked him some background about Appcelerator and its business model.
Continue reading ‘Open Source AIR Alternative: Appcelerator, an interview with Jeff Kunz’
The OSOR Case Studies section this month covers Grosseto’s OpenPortalGuard eID system. The case study tells the story about an Italian case of excellence, started in 2003 when the Italian government decided to introduce eID cards. Grosseto, to acquire an eID-based access control system for its ICT infrastructure, applied a rigorous open source strategy, aiming to cut implementation and operational costs.
Is it a sustainable choice for small public administrations?
Continue reading ‘Open Source Case Study and Open Source Governance’
On the 16th of April the Korea Software Copyright Committee (SOCOP) - a non-profit organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism having the mandate to promote the protection of software-related intellectual property rights - will host the Free Open Source License Insight Conference, at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel (Seoul).
The conference will start with invited talks by experts from abroad and South Korea, a panel discussion will follow. Being and invited speaker I want to thank Ms. Cho Jung-Hyun from SOCOP for her kind invitation, I am really sorry I can’t go.
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Mifos on FLOSS Weekly Open Source Podcast - George Conard and Adam Monsen of the Mifos Initiative interviewed on FLOSS Weekly provide a look into the Mifos Initative.The initiative is aimed at creating and fostering an open platform for the microfinance industry. Mifos is launching is Mifos OnDemand in the Philippines.
Mulecast: A conversation with the creator of The Science Service Bus (SSB) - Edwin Tellman, creator of The Science Service Bus talks about the SSB and who can benefits from it.
Ubuntu Podcast Interviews Mark Shuttleworth - Mark Shuttleworth discusses the upcoming 9.04 release, Ubuntu history, Linux on the desktop, and other stuff.
One-click macros - Learn how to add macro icons to a toolbar in Openoffice Calc.
Dmaths - People who regularly use the formula editor of OpenOffice should consider to use it, now available for OpenOffice.org 3.0.
1205 giorni con OpenOffice (1205 days with OpenOffice) - The latest version of OpenOffice 3 Soluzioni a raccolta - an Italian OpenOffice.org FAQ built with the help of the community - is available for download.
Don’t worry about Red Hat’s 2009 profit decline - Savio Rodrigues keeps analyzing Red Hat’s profits, and highlighting that one-third of Red Hat’s profit comes from activities outside of its core business.
Microsoft releases ASP.NET MVC under the MS-PL License - Miguel de Icaza replying to comments explains why MS-PL incompatibility with GPL code is not an issue within C# and ASP.NET code.
Maintenance Woes Handicap Microsoft’s Azure - Billy Marshall’s, CEO of rPath, essay on cloud actors. Read also Javier Soltero’s thoughts.
CeRSI, the Research Center in Information Systems of the Luiss University, launched a survey on how Italian IT firms profit from open source.
The survey - divided in 15 sections, requiring about 15-20 minutes per section - is part of the SFIDA-PMI research, aiming at understanding how IT firms deliver IT services.
All findings will be available to participants after data analysis will be complete.
The Software Patents war is finally over, glad open source cluster technology made it possible.
Brussels & Munich, 1st April 2009 — After years of confidential work, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) today announce a radical way to improve software patent quality: Binaries-As-Prior-Art, or BAPA. BAPA combines a database of billions of compiled computer programs (”binaries”) with a powerful Cloud search engine that can find any invention in microseconds.
Continue reading ‘European Software Patents: the War is Over’
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